Devvon is extremely well-spoken, as I've known for a long time, and to finally hear these insights about his carreer/ keeping up with running a business is just mindblowing. Been wanting to find more information about the MyAudioNerds pod, how the clips r made, overall how it’s being organized bts and I got just that & more!! Thank you guys

This can also be useful for people with disabilities. 👍🏼😍

Your problem is you think “making beats” is different than playing scales. Dont mean to Kung Fu Panda you but I’ve watched you make beats and you use scales all the time fam. Scales go in order you learned in preschool A B C D E F G is literally scales. The scale of each Key just skips certain notes. For example. If I said the scale is B. You start a B skip C so the 2nd note D skip E the 3rd note is F. Literally Google a sheet of scales in each key and you will have a charted cheat sheet. Also bro literally just learn how to play Triads (the root, 3rd, and 5) which is what a CHORD is. Major or minor 7 chord is the Root 3rd 5th and 7th. A 9th chord is the 7th chord but you add the 2nd and call it a 9th. Etc. Start with scales and triads and everything else will just make sense.

I low key was going to comment that he was a bad teacher but I didn’t want to be the mean guy in the comments. Glad to know I wasn’t the only 1😂

Hey, i'm a piano and guitar teacher. been playing piano over 20 years and my background is more is soul and gospel. one thing i'll say from the perspective of an artist/producer is that you absolutely should not waste your time cultivating things that don't fit your artistic vision. a lotta people with a background in classical or even jazz might not understand that what they learned and how they learned it was dictated by the either unspoken expectations of their teachers, or the own expectations. something else to consider is that there really isn't a "standard" way and that many different and valid traditions can yield better results for different playing styles. I think that anyone insinuating that Simon is somehow a fundamentally lesser pianist or less knowledgeable for having a non-standard or self-taught approach actually hasn't thought of what musicianship means on a deeper level outside of the Western European tradition. It's true that there are no shortcuts, but in the sense that shortcuts are actually fundamentally impossible to make in the first place. There maybe better teachers than Simon, but Simon is still really good

I wouldnt call myself a piano player by any means, but I got comfortable playing keys as a producer by sticking with one scale for a while & slowly increasing. My 25 key midi controller became an unexpected blessing, as it made me more aware of this: there are 12 unique keys on the piano, 7 of those keys are ones I need to focus on, everything else repeats. Playing only the black keys taught me about the pentatonic scale pattern, and playing only the white keys taught me the major & minor scale patterns. When i found the pentatonic scale in the white keys, it was a game changer, since it was a go to scale for me when moving up & down the scales.

Find some keyboard players that learned in the church and talk to them. It is all about watch, listen and ask questions then sit at a keyboard and using your ear figure things out. It is mainly about developing your ear it is everything if you want to make or play music. That's why so many great musicians you find they learned in the church and they developed a great ear in listening and watching to see what the player did. If you have good ears you can figure out and play anything. Like it or not it's all about your ears. Same with being a good recording engineer they have to have good ears. A musician hears sounds and knows or can quickly find what note(s) it is. A recording engineers hears sounds and know what frequencies or at least the general frequence range so they can what they want. Music or recording you're dealing on sound and you hear sound with your ears.

Hope they add multitrack USB audio streaming and/or stem audio export

Hey, small time producer here. I actually started playing the piano before I started producing. I would just like to say that whether you get training from a professional pianist or a fellow producer, it pays to understand concepts. Understanding concepts and basics just makes it easier to understand songs when you decide to learn them. I had a music teacher for like 2 or 3 years before I turned 11, but after I stopped getting lessons I barely played for like 6 years and when I fell in love with music again, I found that watching tutorials which explain the concepts that we might think as complex are actually the ones that I benefitted the most from. And till now, I wish I had taken the piano lessons I got as a kid more seriously, because even as a producer who makes mostly lofi, I can see that the skills from classical music or gospel or whatever form of music are all still musical skills, so they overlap.

Second!🎉L.Dre I am an aspiring music producer, but I started off in the music industry with playing piano, and watching this video really helped me understand your goals. Once I saw the first episode, I sent some materials that I thought could help and simplified things for you, which took me years to understand. Nonetheless, great video. I am enjoying the journey. It reminds me of when I first started playing piano😅.

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9:49 Hard R is CRAAAAZY

Bro every time I listen to an interview from Devon I get SO MUCH GAME

Looks cool. Orba is kinda similar, but I’ll just play with apps.

Enjoying this episode before a little cookup today. Thanks for the inspiration!!!

My why for making music would be making time for my family. I love the idea of finishing what my dad started and not giving up for the same reason he did. Because he was great to us and his jobs and what they paid would be his only downfall he speaks about to this day.

Producers being repetitive is a problem but somtimes people only listen to rappers FOR THE BEATS

glazer smh i couldn’t finish this video

I think poducers should do more reaction bassed content.

Y’all should rather a duolingo subscription and learn music theory from there and implement them in your productions

drop. not for that price.

HOLY SHIIIII <3 Not sure how I'm only seeing this now. You rock LDre, I've been following on insta from my personal account for a long while! So stoked to get your HiChord to you. Cheers, Andrew

So this is sarcasm Yh?

An idea for artists, if you can't make a beat and you can't upload on spotify, record a video of you making a song on a free beat... you can teach a person how to make a song or show them the different writing process, I think everyone including myself needs to start doing more and build better habits.

Check @musicmoneymakeovershow he did a video saying how and why to register yourself to collect, and kinda called out songtrust- and it is possible to collect globally. But yeh this shx complex 😂

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My why is genuinely about joy… the joy of making others enjoy the moment in a world where love is needed more than ever. If I can help to make others forget about their problems even for an hour, it brings me great happiness. I also love the learning and process of playing an instrument… becoming a multi-instrumentalist has brought me much soul-satisfaction. Love this vid, man!

I would love to become a singer. Pls help

wowww

Good video, the struggles of an artist. The ironic part is that both the OG video and this video are, in fact, a piece of content. 😂

Subscribed

Definitely buying one

I feel like your live streams are awesome. You should continue with the community there. And get content from you connecting with your community.

Bro why don’t you just keep making music then lol and forget everything else

I’m kinda glad I still have my 9-5 and I enjoy it as well because I don’t have the pressure of creating because I have to

My why is the thrill of the creative moment the joy of being in the flow and the true connection it brings.

Your eco system has to be sustainable. Make the art for yourself not the audience. I believe there is a difference between entertainment and art. It is subtle but entertainment gets attention it is disposable. Art lasts beyond the moment because its agenda is different. Art is not trying to entertain and if it does its a ruse to slip something more subversive into your mind. That's why Oppression locks up artists, teachers and writers. The performers get left alone. If they own the performer they control the message.

I don't know if this is a possibility but, if you can get a lot of content and videos made and slot them out in advance, like weeks, months ahead, you could appear consistent with your viewers and take a break IRL. Maybe just respond to comments on days when you have a video coming out, supposedly good for algo

He is the bigger independent artist? Pretty fire!

my why- it made my heart come to life! God called me to music to glorify Him with the gifts He gave me

I need one

Hindz really be on it. Great video fam

I love making my music by hand at my pace according to the ebbs and flows of life. If they like it, amazing. If they don't, oh well. At least I enjoyed the process of creation

My why: music is like God to me, and I want to make my offering

cool reaction , enjoyed it. love fam.

My "Why?": It makes me happy. 😃🤗 It's the one thing I do that feels like it's what I am meant to do. I come alive creating and listening to music. I also get to meet other creative people (the community) that are happy creating and doing what they love. Having that kind of synergy in my life is an indescribable magic. Your why - doing it because it's fun and you can see yourself doing it for the rest of your life - is your why.😉 I don't think there is a right or wrong answer to this. We are humans and we evolve. Find your happy thought and hang on to it until your next happy thought inspires you beyond the first. 😊

Yea AJ different

5:14 for me it was never attention. Im a musician 1st but I wanna support myself off creative endeavors & attention is necessary for business growth. If people dont see what u do, it wont bring the money.

My why is to make so much money that money stops existing to me and I can be creative without having to show my creations to anyone. I also don't want to be bothered by the cost of lifes needs(e.g., air, food, drink, shelter, clothing, warmth, sex, sleep, security, and safety). Life is seasonal. Now, is the season of planting seeds for the future where I'm creative without having to show my creations to anyone and I don't have to be bothered by the cost of lifes needs. It's money time! I'm delaying gratification. I'm working now so that I can play later(preferably forever). I don't want a Lambo or 1000 B1tch$, I want to retire from working in capitalism indefinitely. Usually, people don't know why they should make a lot of money, so they think making a lot of money is pointless. It's because they don't have a meaning or purpose to begin with. Creativity needs your mind to be free. clear. not littered. unobstructed. uncluttered. unimpeded. Being worried about rent, water, electricity, or where your next meal will come from makes it difficult to be creative.

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